No luck with the linux backup.  There were 2 backup programs already installed.  One only backed up your own files, music and such, since I already deleted these and am going to access them from my network or cloud, this wasn't useful.  

The other one when I clicked on it, it said it needed to be stated before I could use it, thats what I thought I was doing.  

Linux users will probably think I am an idiot for not knowing that you open a terminal and type some command line stuff first before going to the gui.

Didn't have any luck with getting a W7 recovery iso made either.  I tried getting the iso from torrents as some sites suggested.  No luck getting anything downloaded, just lots of popups and redirects, may as well of done a search for porn and viruses.

Hope to burn a disk then rip it off of the disk and onto a usb drive.  Two of the methods I checked said you may not need the disk.

Notes about my first computer build as well as my attempt to put an SSD in my netbook and transfer windows 7 onto it. 

To confuse the matter I am going to try to dual boot with linux, (probably Mint on netbook and Ubuntu on the HDD of my desktop build).  I know there won't be much space, I am only using a 128gb ssd, but I plan on keeping very limited files on the netbook and mostly using cloud storage ie. Drive, Dropbox, Ubuntu One.

I am self taught regarding computer work and know just enough to usually get what I know and what I think I know mixed up.

Netbook I have an SSD on order

I have deleted all the files and programs off of the Windows side that I don't need, done a back up with Crashplan and copied everything else to a backup drive.  

Tonight I am going to do the same with Mint, I think there is a back up option listed somewhere but I have trouble finding things in linux.

I also hope to get a Windows 7 recovery image from torrents (I never have luck with torrents)  I would like to just create one from my Windows, but I can't just send it to USB and cannot burn it do an optical drive since my netbook doesn't have one.  Then I have to get the USB bootable, I have had variable results booting from USB in the past.  So I will see if I can get it to boot before moving on.  I need this to get Windows to boot, from what I have read you cannot just move a disk image on the new drive.

I would just use linux if I could get just a few things working better.  Particularly GSAK, I use my netbook for it's portability when I Geocache and use GSAK a lot, it doesn't work very well with WINE on linux, some distros I cannot get it to install at all.